Check this. Korean researchers have discovered a way to create alcoholic drinks that reduce hangovers without weakening the drink.  How? By adding oxygen bubbles to the liquor

When you drink ethanol, you body needs to oxidize it to water and carbon dioxide in order to process it. This occurs via hepatic oxidation, where the liver does its thing to counteract the liquor you’ve just poured down your gullet. The enzymes that process alcohol require oxygen to function, and it’s thought that by storing the oxygen in the alcohol itself, the system functions more quickly and efficiently.

io9 explains…

Huffington Post had this video of a fish that was deep fried but kept alive and served that way.  Pretty gnarly.

Well this reminded me of this video of people eating live octopuses I ran into on National Geographic.

Enjoy!

Recent efforts by Rockstar Energy Drink to hide its intimate connection to the vile worst-of-the worst of the right-wing hate fringe have led to legal action.  Rockstar’s founder and CEO, Russel Weiner is the son of hate talker Michael Weiner, better known as Michael Savage.  This alone doesn’t make Rockstar a hate-owned drink in itself.  There is more to the story.  Michael Savage’s wife and Russel’s mother, Janet Weiner, is listed as the director, treasurer, and secretary of both Rockstar and Savage Productions, producer of Savage’s daily talk show, and both companies share the same address. Savage and his wife are both herbalists,  Savage holding a Ph.D. in ethnomedicne.  Savage is notorious for his hate-filled daily talk show on which he once told a gay caller that he hoped he would get AIDS and die, called for the end of all Muslim immigration to the United States and claimed that autistic children are brats who haven’t been told to cut the act out.  The United Kingdom has recently banned Savage from entering the country for fostering extremism.  He has sought the help of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in remedying this ban after calling Clinton “the most Godless woman in the Senate” among other attacks.

Russel shares his father’s right-wing views.  In 1996 he and his father co-founded the Paul Revere Society whose mission was to “bring together Americans who actively seek to take back our borders, our language, and our traditional culture from the liberal left corroding our great nation.” In 1998 Russel ran for the California State Assembly with Savage’s endorsement, proudly displaying his right-wing views as co-founder of the Paul Revere Society exclaiming the society’s xenophobic hate slogan, “Our Nation, Our Border, Our Language.”

Considering Rockstar’s intimate connection to the vile Savage and Russel’s own right-wing extremism, it makes no sense to ever purchase Rockstar Energy Drink.  Further, their own efforts to minimize or hide this connection only demonstrates their acknowledgement of the liabilty this truth would bear for Rockstar’s success.  Don’t support the hate.  Have a Monster Energy or something if you must.

From Southern Fried Science: How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel.

The tools you need are simple: an electric drip coffee maker with hot plate, a coffee filter, 2 1-liter sample jars, 2 handkerchiefs, 2 rubber bands, and a source of clean (preferably R/O) water.

You’ll have to be more creative with your ingredients. What you need are some sort of grain, some malt, and, if possible, something that can act as a clarifying and hopping agent. You need a simple grain to release the tannins, starches, and enzymes. The best bet is common cereals – Raisin Bran, Cracked Wheat, Kashi, whatever you can find. The fruit and nuts will add flavor, but are not important.

Malt is tricky, and sometimes gross. In my experience, the best you can hope for is vegemite, marmite, or some other yeast extract. If you have chocolate malt balls or some other malt based candy, those can be ground up and used as well.

Bill Bramanti’s favorite beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon. He loves it.

Really loves it.

So much so that he’s already had his coffin specially made, and it’s designed to look like a can of the trendy brew. Bramanti isn’t sick, so he doesn’t plan on needing it just yet. For now he plans to use it as a cooler…

…read about it here.